School furniture.



A. J. LEWIS & L. H. JOHNSTON.

SCHOOL FURNITURE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.I7. 1913.

1,170,764. Patented Feb.8, 1916.

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A. J. LEWIS & L. H. JOHNSTON.

SCHOOL FURNITURE.

APPLICATION FILED flown, 191s.

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SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Feb, 8, 1916.

Application filed. November 17, 1913. Serial ms. 801,476.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ARTHUR J OHN Lewis and LLEWELLYN HENRY JOHNSTON, subjects of the King of England, residing at Sovereign, in the Province of Saskatchewan and Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in School Furniture, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings. v v

This invention relates to certain improvements in school furniture, and the object of the invention is to provide a combined seat and desk embodying means'of a novel and improved character whereby the desk and seat may be readily and conveniently adj usted to meet the requirements of the pupil assigned to the same.

The invention consists in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts whereby cer tain important advantages are attained and the device is rendered simpler, less expensive and otherwise more convenient and advantageous for use, all as will be hereinafter more fully set forth. 1

The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined in the appended claim.

In order that our invention may be the better understood, we will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of school furniture constructed in accordance with an embodiment of our invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view taken through the side of the device as illustrated in Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on the line 41 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the accompanying drawings wherein we have illustrated the preferred embodiment of our invention, 1 denotes a seat structure combined with the desk structure indicated by 2. Each of these parts is supported by a pair of standards 3 and a, one at each end of said seat and desk respectively and set in flanged feet 5 suitable for fastening or securing the same to the floor. The standards constitute a support for the rear portion of the desk structure while the front or forward part of the desk is adapted to be supported by the standards 6 suitably spaced from the upper portion of V the standard 3 and connected therewith by the interposed web orplate 7 integrally produced therewith, while the lower portion of such standards 6 are forwardly directed, as

at 8, and suitably united or connected with the adjacent standards l.

As is clearly shown in the drawings, the upper portions of the standards 3 and 6 are tubular in order to be telescopingly engaged by the frame rods 9 and '10 which are adapted to be secured to the standards 3 and 6 in their Various adjusted positions through the medium of the set screws 11' suitably threaded through the upper'marginal portions of such standards 3' and 6 and adapted to bear thereagainst. The frame rods 9 and 10 are suitably tied or connected one with the other by the plate or web 12 which may be, if desired, integrally produced therewith. The frame rods 9 are adapted to have suitably secured thereto the back 14 of the seat structure.

At a suitable point adjacent its upper end the back 14: has the forwardly directed flange 15 to which-is hingedlyconnected, as at'1'6, the desk top 17 and depending from such desk top 17 adjacent the forward marginal portion thereof are the arcuate arms 18 adapted to telescopingly engage the similarly formed upper extremities 19 of the bars 10, such arcuate curved portions 19 of the bars 10 being tubular. By this arrangement, it will be observed that the. desk top 17 may be readily adjusted into an incline best suited for the pupil assigned thereto and this adjustment is maintained through the medium of the set screw 20 threaded through the upper end portions of the bars 9 and adapted to have proper contact with the arms 18.

As has been hereinbefore set forth, it is thought to be obvious that the position of the desk top 17 may be readily and conveniently adjusted relative to the supporting surface on which it is supported or may be adjusted as regards its inclination, and that such desk top 17 may be adjusted without in any ways affecting the seat associated therewith. It is our desire, however, that the seat be capable of adjustment both vertically, longitudinally and axially and, as herein set forth, the seat board 21 is provided on its under surface adjacent the opthe guide ways or channels 23, each of which is formed integrally with a seat hub 2a adapted to be pivotally engaged with a suitable hub 25 produced on the upper end of a post 26 insertible within and telescopic relative to the standard 4. The inclination of the seat board 21 is controlled by the relative axial movement of the hubs 24 and 25 and such hubs are locked in their requisite adjustment by the clamping bolt 27 about which such hubs are adapted to rotate. The vertical adjustment of the seat is con trolled vby the coaction with the post 26 of the set screw 28 properly directed through the upper portion of the standard a and adapted to bind against said post 26. The adjustment of the seat board 21 toward or from the desk with which it cooperates is maintained, as herein shown, through the medium of the set screw 29 suitably threaded through the guide ways 23 and adapted to bind against the tracks 22.

From the foregoing description of our improvements, it is thought to be obvious that school furniture constructed in accordance with our invention is of an extremely simple and comparatively inexpensive nature and is particularly well adapted for use by reason of the convenience and facility by which the several parts may be adjusted to meet the peculiar conditions presented by each individual pupil and it will also be obvious that our invention is susceptible of some change and modification without material departure from the principles and spirit of our invention and for this reason we do not wish to be understood as limiting ourselves to the precise arrangement and formation of the several parts herein shown in carrying out our invention in practice.

We claim:

A combined seat and desk comprising side sections, each section including lower vertically disposed tubular members integrally connected adjacent their upper extremities by an intervening web, upper members telescopically engaged with the lower -me1nbers and integrally connected by an in tervening web, means carried by the lower members coacting with the upper memhere for holding the members against relative movement, the forward upper members of each of the sections bemg dlsposed on a forward and upward curve and having,

their-upper extremities terminating below the upper extremities of the rear members, a cross member supported by the upper extremities of the rear upper members, a desk ton hingedly engaged with said cross member, depending arcuate arms depending from the free portion of the desk top and adapted to telescopingly engage the upper extremities of the forward upper members,

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